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Winning is the only thing in our minds now - Lopez

Cuba coach Jesus Lopez said that winning everything for his team especially if they want to advance to the next round of the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship

Riffa, Bahrain, August 20, 2017 – Cuba coach Jesus Lopez said that they have to win and that is the only thing in their minds right now to progress to the next round of the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Boys’ U19 World Championship.Cuba coach Jesus Lopez: My boys played different today. This is what we have been training for one year. We now have one victory and we have to win again tomorrow. The concentration in this match was very good. We served and received better. Our libero played better than our last two matches. All of these aspects were in our game today. Winning is the only thing in our minds now, nothing else.Cuba captain Rey Isaac Flores Quesada: We knew that our only option is to win because we already had two losses. We had a team meeting and talked about this game, and that helped a lot. We have our first victory now and this is wonderful. We must go to the field stronger than today and we must win.

Poland coach Maciej Zendel: We played like we did yesterday. We didn’t play against Brazil and today we didn’t play against Cuba. We played against our heads and we lost this game. We didn’t have good serve. We played bad volleyball, that’s why we lost.

Poland captain Szymon Jezierski: We made a lot of mistakes like we did yesterday. We wanted to win this match. Our chances to go to the next round are slimmer, but we won’t give up. We will keep going. We hope we can win our next match.